| Kids Are People Preschool |
PRESCHOOL / KINDERGARTEN
While the preschool program continues following the developmental milestones of the children, the focus is on pre-academic skills. These include social and emotional age appropriate maturities such as responsibility, truthfulness, politeness, and sharing. Focus is also placed on exploring letters, symbols, reading, puzzles, and group meetings for calendar, singing, sharing stories and poems, etc. The children use different writing materials and explore math concepts. Language, gross motor, and art experiences are also a part of the curriculum.
The children gradually develop skills in writing, reading, listening, and speaking.
Math concepts are taught through block play, water play, science and art activities, as well as specific activities such as sorting, matching, classifying, sequencing, patterns, sets, time, measurement, shapes, and numbers.
Some of the field trip experiences are community visits for a closer look at social studies and the world around us.
Included in the program for toddlers and preschoolers are movement music class as well as outdoor and indoor free play.
Our goals for the children entering first grade are the following:
Socially, the child can:
1) Sit in a group to listen, share, or discuss for up to a period of twenty minutes.
2) Settle conflict without hitting or screaming.
3) Share toys and materials.
4) Be less focused on egocentric behavior and can put him/herself in the place of others.
5) Can follow three – part directions.
6) Can discuss his / her feelings with teacher and children.
Motor skills, the child can:
1) Form numbers and letters.
2) Draw shapes.
3) Skip and hop.
4) Cross the midline.
Cognitively, the child can:
1) Sequence.
2) Tell stories with sequencing.
3) Recognize letter names and sounds.
4) Read some words by sight.
5) Recognize initial consonant sounds.
6) Rhyme words.
7) Count up to ten and write numbers up to ten.
8) Exhibit one to one correspondence.
9) Compare in measuring length, quantity, weight, and volume.
10) Understand less than, more than, same as.
11) Understand time, seasons, calendar.
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